Bill Shobe's presentation to the April 29th Jobs Summit, sponsored by the Richmond Association for Business Economics, outlines some of the economic fundamentals that determine what power the governor has to create jobs. Not surprisingly, it's rarely as simple as the job creation press releases make out.

Virginia's struggle to set history and social studies standards over the last fifteen years offers an informative lesson in the complicated process of setting SOLs at the state level-and how teachers and students have learned to adapt to them, according to

This study computes the economic impacts of expenditures on
agricultural Best Management Practices (BMP) needed to achieve goals outlined in the 2005 Commonwealth of Virginia Chesapeake Bay Nutrient and Sediment Reduction